Today Wednesday August 17 2016Fintech Worldwide presents the 2nd annual Blockchain Conference New York at PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Madison Ave offices. This is the 9th such Conference worldwide and brings a stellar line up of experts to delve in to topics like smart contracts, the “Internet of Money”, and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations aka DAOs. The entire event will be webcast live on the Internet Society’s Livestream Channel.

On September 10 2015CoinDesk – the leading publisher of independent news and analysis on digital currencies and blockchain technologies – presented its inaugural summit – Consensus 2015 – at the Times Center in New York City. A packed house sat in as experts and leaders across sectors as diverse as law enforcement, bankers, Wall St, and civic activists debated real-world problems and the solutions that cutting-edge digital currencies and blockchain tech might offer. Now, 20 days later, on Wednesday 30 September 2015, you too have the chance to hear and see what went down as the Internet Society brings you a live playback of the entire proceeding.

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Today Tuesday June 3 2015 the the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) presents MONEY 2020: #Bitcoin and Beyond at WeWork Chinatown in Washington DC. Is Bitcoin the future of digital money or will there be a Bitcoin 2.0–or something totally different? What are the technological, legal, and regulatory challenges posed by Bitcoin and similar forms of digital money? Will digital money make friction-free e-commerce possible around the globe or will laws to limit money laundering and sales of illegal goods and services limit anonymous “digital cash.” PANEL: James J. Angel, Ph.D., CFA, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; Catherine D. Pelker, Federal Bureau of Investigation; John Collins, Head of Government Affairs, Coinbase; Peter Van Valkenburgh, Research Director, Coincenter. Moderator: Timothy B. Lee, Senior correspondent at Vox.com. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

On Sunday 25 January 2015, at 4pm the Internet Society’s New York Chapter(ISOC-NY) presented “Bitcoin for Rockstars – a fireside chat with D.A. Wallach” at TurnToTech NYC. The traditional existing methods of registering works and distributing music royalties are archaic, arcane, inefficient, and unsuited to the global networked marketplace. D.A. Wallach recently proposed that a decentralized, open, global ledger, based on bitcoin style blockchain technology, as an optimal solution for credits and rights information about music. Then a system of “smart contracts” could facilitate the distribution of funds. Thus:

In the proposed music rights network, each song, recording, rights-holder, creator, and payor would have its own unique address on the ledger. And complimenting this ledger would be “smart contracts,” programmatic rules defining how the addresses relate to each other and automating their interactions. For example, Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” would have its own address, as would Katy Perry herself, each of her collaborators, and each of the companies entitled to royalties from the song. One set of “smart contracts” could connect all of these addresses to one another.

Spotify, YouTube and other services could then issue all-in royalty micro-payments (aggregating all negotiated fees) directly to the “Dark Horse” address every time the song is played. The smart contracts connected to the “Dark Horse” address would recognize the source of the payment—say, Spotify—and then instantly split and redirect royalties to all the addresses entitled to payments from the service for the song. Katy Perry, her label, her publisher, and her collaborators would all have total visibility into payments received by the “Dark Horse” address, and each would receive its shares instantly in its own wallet. This software-based relay station for royalty and licensing payments would put creators at the center of the action, allowing them to understand how much money their works were generating, and from which services or licensees. It would also give artists and songwriters instant access to the funds generated by their work, obviating the long waiting periods they currently endure.

We invite you,to join D.A. Wallach and ISOC-NY to explore this fascinating concept! Our interlocutor was Aram Sinnreich of Rutgers University. author of the Piracy Crusade.

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Today, Thursday March 27 2014, the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy aka CITP will presnt a full-day conference Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Research This conference will bring together experts in both areas to elucidate the underpinnings of Bitcoin and examine key questions about its future. How should we best foster exploration of the design space of Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies (“altcoins”)? What are the implications of research on markets, economic stability, currencies, and human behavior for the technical system, and vice versa? What would Bitcoin developers and researchers like from each other, and how can we facilitate more collaboration between the two groups? A lunch keynote will be delivered by Bitcoin Lead Developer Gavin Andresen. The entire conference will be webcast live.